More Christmas Pics

Ok we've finally got some time to sit down and update the blog. We had a great Christmas in NY. It snowed the first and last day and melted in between so we had a "green" and "white" Christmas. Because I am lazy, these pics are out of order :)

Rhys chillin in cousin Elizabeth's rockin car seat.
Aunt Sarah dressing the little man. He's not a thumb sucker...just anything and everything else he can fit into his mouth.

It may be 30 degrees outside but the kitchen was nice and toasty from all of Nanny's cooking so Rhys sported the "nakie" look.

Here's Grandpa holding Rhys who is having a bit of a time standing on a slick kitchen floor with socks on.

This is the one and only picture we took of Rhys outside when it snowed. He HATES the snow and was royally P.O.ed that we even attemped this.

Aunt Sarah on Christmas morning. This was a feast for Rhys...all of that yummy wrapping paper!!!

Nanny made Hilary this awesome quilt for Christmas. The colors are more vibrant but there was a bit of a glare. I think she's been hanging with the Amish a bit much lately :)

Here's Rhys eating a blue giraffe he got from Australia. This was actually a great distraction from all of the colorful wrapping paper that he was drooling over.

Here he is helping Nanny open her presents.

Grandpa shows his disapproval of the LL Bean slippers...secretly he was doing the happy dance inside his head b/c he would never have to wear those fugly brown old people slippers again!!!

Hmmm Grandpa, I'm thinking of pulling that fuzzy thing on your face...it looks very grabbable.

Yummy, plastic and paper...best combo ever!

Here's Rhys and the momma hanging out upstairs. He's trying to get to the Da by clawing his way up the back...he'll get there.

Aunt Sarah feeding the always empty belly. I grow weary thinking about what our grocery bill will be like when he's competely on solids.

YEAH!!! Vanilla ice cream shuts me up real fast!!! Cold and tasty for those teething gums.

Hello out there...I'm kinda muscular...need to show off the pecs and bulging biceps.

Merry Christmas!

Lots more pics to be added later and of course some witty commentary. :)

Lost Turkey Day pics and Cookie Time

We forgot to upload some pics off Shannon's iphone when we were home for Thanksgiving. Aunt Sarah was holding Rhys at Sergis...he will learn to love the best pizza in the world but in the meantime, he settled for eating the entire paper placemat...I swear one of these days this kid is going to poop a tree.

Dinner at PF Changs. I like the spice tea, he likes the chopsticks.

At the airport in Ottawa, he didn't want to lay in my arms to eat as he didn't have a full view of everything that was going on. It also gave me a free arm to eat with :)

Cookie time!!! This is the godiva dipped cookie I was talking about. These are in order from cleanest to... well... no so clean. The moment chocolate touches this kid's mouth, his eyes glaze over and he goes into a feeding frenzy...very similar to Jaws when chum was thrown overboard.Ok mommy you can hold it so I can concentrate on my super nomming ability. I will suck every last spec of chocolate off of this cookie!!!

He he...I have a little spot that I missed on my cheek, let me wet my fist, rub it around my face and then lick it all off.

Ok so maybe that wasn't such a good idea. It seems to me that I might have spread it around instead of putting it all in my mouth. Oh is that a crumb of cookie on my shirt?!!?!!?

Hey ladies...I'm tall, dark and single...I even make chocolate look good.

Expensive tastes...

Shannon came home yesterday with a box of Godiva dipped cookies from his white elephant xmas party at work. I'm more of a ghiradelli girl myself but Rhys does not care as long as its chocolate and can melt fast and be spread all over his face, hands, tummy, hair........ We got some great pics last night but I didn't get a chance to upload them so they'll have to wait till tonight.

Buca di Beppo

We took Rhys out to celebrate my new job...we got a yummy Italian spread, he got bread.

But why have bread when you can have a nutritious, delicious napkin?!?

Parental lessons and Santa Claus

So our pediatrition advised us to throw out all of Rhys' plastic toys that were made in China. Since he's sticking everything in his mouth, its probably a good idea. The only store I know that sells that type organic made toys is http://tinytots.com/. Rhys and I made a trek over there to see if anything looked good. There were several babies there getting their picture taken with Santa and the owner had offered to get Rhys' done but I didn't want to risk him losing it since it was so close to nap time. We headed right for the teething section and he got to try out all of the display pieces so that he could pick which one "tasted" the best. Of course the little monster settled on the most expense one...an all natural rubber, BPA, PVC & Phthalate Free giraffe made in France. For a picture of Sophie whom I've renamed Jiff http://www.thesoftlanding.com/soginaruteto.html We tried other rubber teethers but this was the only one he shoved into his gums and held onto with a death grip. When we were checking out, the owner offered again to get his picture taken, 15+ digital pictures, burned to a cd for free...can't beat that and he was in good spirits so we gave it a shot and this is what we ended up with.